Sorry to keep anyone in suspense with regards to my whereabouts and travel safety. I finally did make it to San Francisco... tacking on waiting for my bag, getting to the BART and riding it all the way out to Berkeley, my final arrival time to my actual destination was 7:00pm PST.

We had a pretty chill night - went to get some awesome stuffed pizza and then came back to Alice's house and watched Margaret Cho. She's awesome!

Then we woke up today and there was what seemed to be a MONSOON outside. Water was gushing down the street in sheets and the wind was howling and gusting... and Alice's living room windows were leaking. There was water all over the floor and furniture - it was fantastic! A perfect example of landlord negligence.

Anyway we refused to let the rain deter our plans to leave the house, so we ended up going shopping at a mall in San Francisco. The rain actually let up by mid-afternoon, so we were free to roam around the city in the evening. We met up with Alice's friend Karen in the Mission, visited some little shops that sell all kinds of interesting things such as hand-drawn planners, denim coffee holders, beer can necklaces, plaster logs, porcelain peanuts, etc.

No, really. Hasn't everyone out there always dreamed of owning porcelain peanuts? ...What? Never? ... are you sure?

Then we had yummy burritos, and Alice and I headed back to the house and watched TLC. Tomorrow is Asian day! We're getting dim sum in Chinatown and then going to the Asian Art Museum to smash some mochi. Or something like that. Hopefully there will be no monsoon to deal with. Keep your fingers crossed.